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463:, led a revolt against the Abbasids in 751, but was defeated and died in captivity. Aban's son Ubayd Allah later joined Abd al-Rahman I in al-Andalus, as did Mu'awiya's other son, Abd Allah, and grandson, al-Mughira ibn al-Walid. Another son of Mu'awiya, Yahya, died while escaping Abbasid Syria with Abd al-Rahman I. 372:, capturing many prisoners and sacking several forts. Mu'awiya is also recorded to have launched an expedition in 726, possibly in winter, but nothing specific is known of it. In 727, he led another expedition, alongside 403:. In the next year, his forces were reportedly unable to penetrate the frontier, while a secondary expedition by al-Battal was heavily defeated. In 732, Mu'awiya's expedition penetrated as far as 789: 411:. He continued to lead expeditions over the next few years, but although they ranged deep into Asia Minor in search of plunder—one of his raiding parties reportedly reached 804: 799: 765: 725: 676: 633: 419:
coast—no major town or fortress appears to have been captured. In summer 737, he again led the southern expedition, but died, according to
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in September/October 730, but Byzantine sources state that this was done by Mu'awiya's uncle,
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first, and then their combined forces took the fortress of Ateous, and advanced on
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led the northern; neither appears to have been particularly successful.
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Biographical details about Mu'awiya are sparse. His father was Caliph
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Muslim sources attribute to him the capture of the fortress of
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White Banners: Contention in 'Abbasid Syria, 750–880
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Battal captured and razed 440: 335: 270: 831: 299:Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya 210:Other Umayyad expeditions. 735:Scales, Peter C. (1994). 620:Blankinship, Khalid Yahya 459:Another son of Mu'awiya, 301:, was the founder of the 245: 160: 156: 94: 85: 421:Theophanes the Confessor 401:Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik 321:. His mother was either 305:and the Umayyad line of 815:8th-century Arab people 795:Sons of Umayyad caliphs 739:. Leiden: E. J. Brill. 319:Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik 291:Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik 130:Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik 643:Cobb, Paul M. (2001). 665:Lilie, Ralph-Johannes 78:(up to thirteen sons) 691:"Muʾāwiya b. 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Index

concubine
Issue
Abd al-Rahman
Aban
House
Dynasty
Umayyad
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Umm Hakim bint Yahya
Islam
Umayyad Caliphate
Arab–Byzantine wars
Siege of Nicaea
Charsianon
Walid II
Yazid III
Maslama
Sulayman
Sa'id
Arabic
romanized
Arab
Umayyad
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Arab–Byzantine Wars
Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya
Emirate of Córdoba
al-Andalus
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Umm Hakim

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